Mollly And Asa Quimby Hoagpen Are

Mollly and Asa Quimby Hoagpen are Holy Rollers---

Bible-thumpers, pew-leapers, shouters, and doomsday bell tollers.

During each service at church, they speak in some unknown tongue:

they say this is quite involuntary---it is, rather, wrung

out of their spirits by a granted and relentless inspiration.

They speak much, also relentlessly, about hellfire and damnation;

it seasons their nearly every kind of conversation.

One sometimes wonders if they have foreknowledge, an anticipation

pf what shall be their ulrtimate and eternal destination.


Starward

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This poem came to me, almost entirely intact, while I was "indisposed" in the bathroom.

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